Beautiful Future

Beautiful Future is the ninth studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream. It was released on 21 July 2008 by B-Unique Records. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.^[1] It was promoted with the single "Can't Go Back", and was produced by Björn Yttling and Paul Epworth.

Beautiful Future
Studio album by Primal Scream
Released	21 July 2008 (2008-07-21)
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	54:00
Label	B-Unique
Producer	Björn Yttling Paul Epworth
Primal Scream chronology
Riot City Blues (2006) Beautiful Future (2008) More Light (2013)
Singles from Beautiful Future
"Can't Go Back" Released: 14 July 2008 "Uptown" Released: 2008 (promo)

According to the press release, "the album displays a heady mix of genre crunching taking in Philly soul, dark electro, accelerated rock'n'roll riffs and pure British pop, all given that particular Scream edge."^[2] The album features special guest appearances from Lovefoxxx (of Cansei de Ser Sexy), Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) and folk legend Linda Thompson. With the extended edition of Beautiful Future, as well as the album featuring two extra songs ("Urban Guerrilla", "Time of Assassins"), the album also includes the video for the single, "Can't Go Back".

It is the first album not to feature the guitarist Robert "Throb" Young, who left after the release of their previous album Riot City Blues in 2006 due to his retirement for personal reasons, and it is also the last studio album to feature the bassist Mani, who departed after Screamadelica Live in 2011, and then re-formed his past band The Stone Roses in the same year.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	64/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
OMM	[5]
Pitchfork	7.0/10[6]
NME	8/10[7]
Digital Spy	[8]
Gigwise	[9]
The Guardian	[10]
The Independent	[11]
The Times	[12]
Virgin Media	[13]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Beautiful Future"	5:09
2.	"Can't Go Back"	3:44
3.	"Uptown"	4:50
4.	"The Glory of Love"	3:11
5.	"Suicide Bomb"	5:51
6.	"Zombie Man"	3:37
7.	"Beautiful Summer"	4:43
8.	"I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be Hurt)" (featuring Lovefoxxx)	4:32
9.	"Over & Over" (featuring Linda Thompson)	4:33
10.	"Necro Hex Blues" (featuring Josh Homme)	3:34
11.	"The Glory of Love" (single version)	3:13

All tracks are written by Primal Scream, except "Over & Over" by Fleetwood Mac and "Urban Guerrilla" by Hawkwind.

Limited edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Urban Guerrilla"	3:25
13.	"Time of the Assassins"	3:38

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Primal Scream

• Bobby Gillespie – vocals
• Andrew Innes – guitar, synthesizer
• Gary Mounfield – bass guitar
• Martin Duffy – keyboards
• Darrin Mooney – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Victoria Bergsman – vocals
• Ellekari Larsson – vocals
• Lykke Li Zachrisson – vocals
• Maria Andersson – vocals
• Juliet Roberts – vocals
• Lovefoxxx – vocals
• Linda Thompson – vocals
• Erik Arvinder – violin
• Andreas Forsman – violin
• Christopher Öhman – viola
• Emma Lindhamre – cello
• Barrie Cadogan – guitar, slide guitar
• Bjorn Yttling – keyboards
• Josh Homme – guitar

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14]	62
French Albums (SNEP)[15]	153
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[16]	57
UK Albums (OCC)[1]	9